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CD-ROM drive not responding

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by wrench_73

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My CD-ROM drive isn't responding. When I put a CD in the drive it sounds like its trying to take affect but yet nothing happens on the monitor. I left the disk in for 5 minutes and when I pulled it out the disk was very HOT!(185 degrees or so) Is the CD ROM drive fried??? My auto insert notification is ON!.

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by pxttocyob

You must turn off your auto insert notification. Then you can have a look at the drive in your drive explorer. If you can't see it there, clean the drive. It is acting as an air filter and is collecting debris.

by pxttocyob

Another option is that windows has determined that the non wondows software platter is not done yet and is trying to cook it some more.

by karthikkumar

Well you can say your CDROM drive has sorta blown it's fuse.The problem looks like that the Laser lens which reads the Cdrom has gotten misaligned or just died out.Auto-insert notification will not help in any way.You will probably have to change the drive altogether.Check with your dealer or any hardware technician just to make sure.CD-Rom drive's lenses don't usually last for more than 3-4 years.If your CD-ROM drive is in the region of that time period,chuck it and get a new drive(DVD or CD-RW).No sense getting dragged with the old drive.

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